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Mattering Press: Joe Deville (Lancaster University) MayFly Books: Christopher Land (University of Leicester) The Goldsmiths Press: Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths) Meson Press: Mercedes Bunz (University of Westminster) Punctum: Eileen Joy (BABEL Working Group)Q&A On 15th - 16th of June 2015 the Radical Open Access Conference took place at Coventry University, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media. The conference gathered together a large community of presses, projects and thinkers exploring some of the more intellectually and politically exciting ways of understanding open access that are currently available internationally. Panel 1. A Multitude of Models: Radical Open Access in Practice This panel will showcase a number of projects that are currently experimenting with alternative models for open academic and scholarly publishing. Some are scholar-led; others are exploring the boundaries between the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ of the university through being deliberately and provocatively ‘para-academic’; while others again have been explicitly designed to emphasise the ethics of publishing and the responsibility it places on us to radically rethink the material practices and social relations of scholarly communication. In their ‘working against the grain’, many of these projects diverge quite significantly from the importance that is generally attached in mainstream open access debates to the development of centralised platforms, interoperable archives, APCs and sustainable business models. (As Armin Beverungen and Helge Peters point out, the emphasis on ‘having a business model’ has only really emerged in the last 10 years or so.) Brought together like this these projects will present their ongoing work as part of the conference’s overall discussion of the exciting intellectual and political potential of open access. This first panel will thus start the conference by deliberately highlighting the diversity of methods, models and approaches that are available for the communication and sharing of research. Speakers: Mattering Press: Joe Deville (Lancaster University) MayFly Books: Christopher Land (University of Leicester) The Goldsmiths Press: Sarah Kember (Goldsmiths) Meson Press: Mercedes Bunz (University of Westminster) Punctum: Eileen Joy (BABEL Working Group) Chaired by: Rupert Gatti (Cambridge University/Open Book Publishers)

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